Minister visits Slovenian community in Barcola
Barkovlje, 21 May - Minister for Slovenians Abroad Helena Jaklitsch attended an event in Barcola, a neighbourhood of Trieste, on Friday to mark the 40th anniversary of the re-establishment of the local Slovenian cultural association. She congratulated the Slovenian community there for preserving and strengthening the Slovenian identity.
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Minister for Slovenians Abroad Helena Jaklitsch.
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Jaklitsch congratulated the association for decades of efforts to preserve and strengthen Slovenian identity, language and culture in Barcola, Italy, where ethnic Slovenians have been living for centuries, reads a press release by the Government Office for Slovenians Abroad.
The event was also dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the naming of a local Slovenian primary school after the writer Fran Saleški Finžgar (1871-1962). In her address, the minister thanked the school staff for their work.
Italian senator Tatjana Rojc, who is a member of the Slovenian minority in Italy, was in attendance as well.